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  1. Allied propaganda collection

    The collection consists of an R.A.F. flier dropped on France, a picture book, distributed by the American military, urging resistance, a copy of a newspaper ("Combat"), and three French war propaganda posters.

  2. Allied propaganda leaflet, "Ein Deutsches Flugblatt"

    Leaflet dropped by the RAF over Germany in July 1943. The leaflet quotes from the "Manifesto of the Munich Students" attributed to the White Rose resistance group.

  3. Allied propaganda leaflets

    Contains nine propaganda leaflets produced by British and American forces. Included are quotes by Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring and information about the activities of the U.S. and British air forces over Germany from circa 1941 to circa 1944.

  4. Allied troops advance; Tirpitz ship bombed; Japanese-American soldiers

    Part 1, Ceremonies at Compiegne. Part 2, Allied troops advance through mud and snow in Europe. Part 3, the German battleship Tirpitz is bombed and sunk on the coast of Norway. Hitler at its launching in 1939. British Air Marshall Harris. Part 4, Japanese-American soldiers rescue soldiers of the 36th Division surrounded in France.

  5. Allied troops in Pacific; German generals in Africa; German surrender to Russia

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 4: (1942-43) Allied troops fight in New Guinea jungles. British armor routs the enemy in Egypt, capturing many Italians. US and British troops land in French North Africa. Shows the scuttled French fleet. A Russian pincer entraps Germans; Romanians and Germans (including 24 generals) surrender. Shows Generals MacArthur, Alexander, and Montgomery.

  6. Allies clear debris; children sent to England to recuperate

    The Allies commissioned this four part documentary from Maurits Schaap after liberation. Titles: "Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen", "Documentaire Film der Verwoesting", "Bulldozers aan den arbeid". An Allied bulldozer clears debris. Cranes and other tractors push, pull, lift and haul destroyed materials. Title, "Afscheid Kol. J.V. Leeuwen. Gezagsoverdracht aan Maj. F. Koch" Military and civilian personnel sit together at a large banquet table, enjoying a meal before the departure of Colonel. J.V. Leeuwen. Titles: "Nieuwe Mil. Commissaris van Z. Vlaanderen Majoor", "F.P.O.M. Koch". Koch works at a desk,...

  7. Allies declare war

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 803, Parts 1 through 3. Release date, 09/04/1939. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:13:39 Part 1A: Dramatic scenes of a new conflict that may envelop the world in flames. Hitler's war machine rolls into Poland-encouraged to strike by the new pact with Stalin's Red Russia. With Danzig seized, Polish infantry and cavalry rally to the defense of their homeland. Italy remains in the background, while Nazis pour into the Siegfried Lines to stem a possible Allied thrust. 12:15:31 Part 1B: England. Tense eleventh-hour scenes in London, as Prime Mi...

  9. Alliiertes Sicherheitsamt der Alliierten Hohen Kommission

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Zuständigkeit ergab sich aus der Satzung der Alliierten Hohen Kommission für Deutschland vom 20. April 1949, die aufgehoben wurde durch Proklamation der Alliierten Hohen Kommission vom 5. Mai 1955 (ABl. AHK S. 3272). Das Sicherheitsamt unterstütze den Rat, das oberste Organ der Hohen Kommission, und behandelte alle Angelegenheiten der Entmilitarisierung, der Abrüstung, der Industrieverbote und -beschränkungen sowie der wissenschaftlichen Forschung. Bestandsbeschreibung Der Bestand war zuvor als sog. Kleine Erwerbung ins Bundesarchiv gelangt und trug die B...

  10. Almanacs

    Almanac containing information about the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, addresses and general information.

  11. Alois Haase, Trutnov

    The fonds contains records of the Alois Haase Company. Box 5 includes reports of work done by prisoners of war, forced labourers from other countries and Jewish female prisoners from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Silesia: correspondence with the head of the forced labour camp for Jewish female prisoners Elsa Hawliková and lists of Jewish female prisoners 1942–1943 (Inv. No. 111); lists of sick Jewish female prisoners from the forced labour camp in Poříčí who were working for flax companies in the Trutnov region in 1944 (Inv. No. 112); instructions from the Gross-Rosen concentration ...

  12. Alois J. Liethen collection

    Consists of 35mm negative film and positive prints taken by Alois J. Liethen after the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps and at the residence of Fritz Sauckel in Weimar. Mr. Liethen acted as a translator for General Eisenhower on his 12 April 1945, tour of Ohrdruf; the collection includes images of Eisenhower. Some photographs are captioned. Also includes two CDs, one containing scanned images of the photographs and the other containing scanned images of a letter written by Alois Liethen on 13 April 1945.

  13. Alois Moser papers

    Contains information about Alois Moser's experiences as a Jehovah's Witness during the Holocaust. Moser describes his persecution as a Jehovah's Witness, his imprisonment in several camps including Mauthausen, and the various types of camp inmate markings (triangles and badges) that he encountered in the camps. Also included is a timeline that traces Moser's travels as a prisoner from April 1939 through May 1945.

  14. Alois Zamecnik papers

    Collection consists of documents relating to Alois Zamecnik including his succesful efforts to prove that he had not been a member of the Nazi Party. Also includes certificates issued to his wife and mother for being "good German mothers."

  15. Alona Frankel family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publication relating to the experiences of Gusta and Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family lived in hiding in the Lvov ghetto, and after the war in Krakow and following their emigration to Israel.

  16. Álorvosi iratok, 1964-1975

    • Cases of the Victims of Nazi Pseudo-Scientific Experiments, 1964-1975

    Nazi Germans conducted a series of medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners, mainly Jews from across Europe, but also on Romani people, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and disabled non-Jewish Germans. These human experiments took place in concentration camps mainly in the early 1940s. Prisoners were coerced into these experiments that would often result in their death, or disfigurement or permanent disability of their bodies. Many deported Hungarian Jews fell victims to these infamous Nazi human experiments that were conducted, most notoriously, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp...

  17. Alpers, Friedrich

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Braunschweigischer Staatsminister der Justiz und der Finanzen, General- forstmeister, Mitglied des braunschweigischen landtages (NSDAP) Zitierweise BArch N 2003/...

  18. Alpert family collection

    Collection of photographs of the Ptaszek family in Warsaw, Poland before the war; the Berger family (Berta Berger with her siblings in the Jaworzno ghetto), Abraham Ptaszek Alpert and Bertha Berger Alpert in Marburg, Germany immediately after the liberation, at their wedding, with their baby Sabina Rose; and images of Sabina Rose Alpert as baby in Marburg, 1925-1949. Includes documents relating to the Alpert family's timein Germany 1945-1947 and their immigration to the US in 1947. Also includes audio cassettes on which Mr. Abraham Alpert recorded his memoirs later published as “Spark of Li...

  19. Alphabetical list of Flossenbürg inmates

    Collection of administrative material relating to Flossenbürg collected by the US Army in connection with war crimes trials. Includes alphabetical lists of over 100,000 inmates. The information on each inmate consists of prisoner number, category of prisoner, family and personal name, date and place of birth, date of arrival and date and nature of fate, i.e., died, transferred, released, etc.

  20. Alralej-Steruberg postcards

    Consists of 15 postcards to Mosa Alralej from Arnold Steruberg. Postcards are marked Stari Gradiska and Lepoglava, concentration camps in Croatia.